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" It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. "

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" Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. "

" So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with. "

" There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything. "

" So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami. "

" And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day. "

" Everyone has a black guy inside them. Mine is a Cuban sonero who is 80-something years old and sings better than I do. His name is Medoro Madera. Medoro has been recording since 1997. "

" And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked it up when I came here and I recorded in 1969 my first album with Pete Rodriguez. "

" It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here. "

" Basically, I would like to be considered for roles that are well-written. I think that part of the problem that we've had as actors is that they insist on looking at us as Latino actors and not as actors, period. "

" A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you. "

" I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band. "

" Tango was very popular in Panama at the time when I was growing up. In the Fifties in Panama, the radio stations played all types of music. "

" To fix Panama, you need more than charisma and records: you need a program of action. "

" So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74. "

" People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being. "

" I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang. "

" We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened. "

" What I do not accept is the fact that so many people's talents were ripped off. "

" I'm planning to retire from salsa. I'm planning to do a farewell tour. "

" I think being born in Panama was a blessing because Panama is a port city. It's a really - the mentality is that - I remember that of admitting things in. You know, ports, ideas come in and out all the time. "

" Tortured characters are, I think, an actor's dream. "

" Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music. "

" I didn't do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don't have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn't interested in the people around the drugs. "

" It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985. "

" So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama. "

" I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America. "

" I was always interested in trying to find how different genres would affect the lyrics that I'd written. Salsa is where most of my songs have been recorded, the genre of salsa. It's very frenetic, fast-paced. And I felt that the lyrics sometimes were being lost. "

" But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood. "

" My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us. "

" I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication, should be probed to its extremes, to see how effective it can actually become, which is one of the reasons why I became also interested in presenting political points of view. "